Formula 1 World Champions 1950-2021

Top 10 Champions

Work in progress.

(Source code.)

Data notes

Multiple P1 entries for some races

These races have more than one entry in results.csv for pole-sitter (grid = 1):

   raceId polesitterId
1     717          374
2     717          373
3     780          479
4     785          608
5     791          608
6     792          642
7     792          427
8     814          633
9     815          697
10    824          475
11    828          786

The reasons are kind of wild. See for example:

• Race ID 792: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_Argentine_Grand_Prix
• Race ID 717: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_United_States_Grand_Prix

Pole position based on starting grid

The dataset does not contain qualy times for over half of all the 1000+ races. I am using starting grid position P1 instead.

TODO

• Monospace font
• Special characters not rendered (as in “Räikkönen”)
• Legend
• Race numbers (maybe)

Credit

Inspired by https://github.com/gkaramanis/tidytuesday/tree/master/2020/2020-week15.